Quotes About Safety

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

Wholeness feels like gratitude. Gratitude that we are safe and happy and together.

Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]

I don't know which side everybody's on any more, and I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order. It doesn't mean that I don't wish you courage in your struggle. There are on both sides of this struggle men of goodwill. That is important to remember, some struggling for freedom, some struggling for safety.

Talk to her about safe ways to handle dangerous feelings. When you are driving and someone cuts in front of you, instead of giving way to road rage, say, "I'm so mad I could have smashed into him. But I didn't." She may not entirely understand you, but she'll be comforted to find that frightening feelings can be discussed.

The best way to protect something is to set it free.

Wasn't she afraid of the violence men can do to women? Yes, she was—where is the woman who isn't—but what sort of man, who takes the name of God, would even speak of such things?

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

My alarm tells me you're in my house. My gun tells me not for long.

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

That was totally his fault-Kenji's.. He tried to cross on red.. You ignore the signal, you'll get hurt. every kindergartener knows.. red means stop." -Slam Dunk

All men think that a woman walking alone at night is a whore.

Ridley nodded. 'She told me I couldn't ever tell General Harding or anybody else. Told me I wouldn't be safe.' 'Safe?' Uncle Bob stopped rocking and took the pipe from between his teeth. 'She started in talkin' 'bout you bein' safe, sir?' Ridley nodded again, and that's when Uncle Bob grinned. 'Well, shoot . . . you ain't lost her yet, sir. Not altogether, anyhow. Any female goes to talkin' 'bout you bein' safe . . . hmmph. There still be somethin' left in her heart for ya.

out here in the real world, my man, you would be amazed how seldom murder has to break into people's lives. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it gets there because they open the door and invite it in.

She smelled of sweet safe things I hadn't smelt in years,

But because the whole point of the vow was for none of them to have to feel like this. The point was for one place in their lives to be impregnable. For just one kind of love to be stronger than any outside thing; to be safe.

the king led his men into battle. Always. That was what the ruler was: both on a practical level and on a mystical one, he was the one who stepped forwards to lead his tribe, put his life at stake for them, become the sacrifice for their safety. If he had refused to do that most crucial thing at that most crucial moment, they would have ripped him apart—and rightly so: he would have shown himself to be an impostor, with no right to the throne.

She would remind herself that in reality she was safe despite her fears, or that her hyperventilating was only a sign of temporary anxiety, not a sign that she would suffocate.

The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.

May I be filled with lovingkindness; may I be held in lovingkindness. May I feel safe and at ease. May I feel protected from inner and outer harm. May I be happy. May I accept myself just as I am. May I touch deep, natural peace. May I know the natural joy of being alive. May I find true refuge within my own being. May my heart and mind awaken; may I be free.

to failure." Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations—which covers pretty much all of life.